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Lot Essay
Vases of this 'lantern' shape, applied with the unusual mock handles of inverted vase shape, originated in the Yongzheng period, when they were made with Guan and Ge-type glazes, such as the two Yongzheng examples in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated by Geng Baochang (ed.), Gugong Bowuyuan cang Qingdai yuyao ciqi, Beijing, 2005, pls. 174 and 206. However, during the Qianlong period the shape became a vehicle for the robin's egg-blue glaze.
A similar robin's egg-blue-glazed vase with Qianlong mark was included in the Special Exhibition of K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung Porcelain Ware from the Ch'ing Dynasty in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1986, no. 93. Another example illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, vol. 2, no. 923, was subsequently sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 4 April 2012, lot 6. See, also, the example from the Grandidier Collection in the Musée Guimet, Paris, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 7, Tokyo, 1982, no. 184; and another included in An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, Christie's London, 1993, no. 49.
A similar robin's egg-blue-glazed vase with Qianlong mark was included in the Special Exhibition of K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung Porcelain Ware from the Ch'ing Dynasty in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1986, no. 93. Another example illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, vol. 2, no. 923, was subsequently sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 4 April 2012, lot 6. See, also, the example from the Grandidier Collection in the Musée Guimet, Paris, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 7, Tokyo, 1982, no. 184; and another included in An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, Christie's London, 1993, no. 49.